Category: Government (Page 7 of 13)

NewsMax: West Point changing mission statement.

I’m going with Lily Tomlin on this one.

Here is the old mission statement:

To educate, train and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the United States Army.

The new mission statement:

To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and Nation.

The substantive difference is that “Duty, Honor, Country” is changed to “Army Values”.  Sure, the mission statement has changed before and the “Duty, Honor, Country” was add 25 years ago.  What makes this change significant is that our country is dangerously polarized.  The federal government, academia and commercial media are infected with cultural Marxism and are failing at their primary functions.

“Army Values” can mean anything.  It may mean “Duty, Honor, Country” right now, but can be changed to “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” without changing the mission statement.  Since “Army Values” is not defined in the mission statement, professors and administrators at West Point can assume it means whatever they want. 

Am I too cynical?  I don’t think so. 

There was a time when women weren’t placed in combat because it might reduce fighting efficiency.  Now, if a soldier requests a sex-change operation, the military pays for it and the soldier requires ongoing medical supervision. 

West Point and military leadership have been woke for some time.

Since 1992, the Department of Defense has observed Gay Pride Month.

Beyond the Black: Americans Push Back

We all need to refuse to consent. Since politicians are nothing more than bullies, such defiance will quickly cause them to back off. Both Illinois and St. Louis this week clearly proved this.

Good, we need more of this and perhaps the government will get back to just doing it’s job.  This is not just happening in America.

If 2024 is set to be tumultuous and unpredictable, just wait until 2025 if Donald Trump wins the presidency again this year.

His adversaries don’t have a history of accepting his victories with equanimity.

Trump’s opponents are sincerely, and to some extent understandably, alarmed by his conduct after the 2020 election and how he’s branded his political comeback a revenge tour.

For most of them, though, saving democracy doesn’t mean upholding the rules no matter what and letting the voters decide the election and the next president.

Democrats could have fielded better candidates.  Biden is a feeble dotard and Harris is a diversity hire.  Bernie Sanders was boxed out in 2020 and so was JFK Jr. for 2024.  The Democrats could have attempted to govern in a responsible manner, but instead, they have indulged their worst policies and punished Donald Trump any way they can.

It’s hard to imagine what’s more extreme than one side in our politics indicting its leading opponent, creating the real prospect of jailing him in the months before an election and excluding him from the ballot in select states.

Yet if Trump wins, we have to assume this is only a taste of things to come.

Corporate media has talked about a civil war, in a theoretical manner, since 2016.  It may happen, but not in the manner they presume.

It’s difficult to imagine the current political climate continuing or degrading further.  If it must happen, most Americans would prefer to get it over with.

Guardian: Coroner calls for action, will Google and Amazon have the wisdom to ignore her?

Google and Amazon must act after a British woman made a suicide pact with two people she met online and bought the poison that killed her on the internet, a coroner has said.

It would be useless for Google to attempt to censor the information a 43 year-old woman used to commit suicide.  Lethal compounds are fatal to humans and animals.  People should know how dangerous those compounds are.  There are endless methods to kill oneself.  Censoring the information would only hurt the mentally stable.

Amazon provided the substances.  The article doesn’t mention what was used, but the substance may very well have a productive purpose.  Not selling to reasonable people to protect the crazy people is why it’s so difficult to get decent cold medicine.  The crazy people always be crazy.

The British don’t seem to have much good sense anymore, so tend to do what they think the rest of the world wants them to do.  They will probably cave to a random coroner.